sensitive - Story 128600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unfortunate," the editor had said, the word a gentle hammer blow. Rose stared at the email, the words blurring before her eyes. The rejection from "Celestial Publishing" felt like a final sentence. She felt a burning in her throat.

She reached for the phone, intending to call her best friend, but her fingers fumbled with the buttons. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She slumped back in her chair, tears beginning to flow freely, streaking her cheeks.

She looked at the manuscripts stacked on her desk, the countless hours of work now rendered meaningless. She closed her eyes, and the world seemed to tilt. She felt like she was drowning.

Emotion: sensitive

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sensitive. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sensitive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sensitive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sensitive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`ness`	0.304
`😞`	0.282
`😥`	0.272
`😣`	0.271
`own`	0.264

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.679
`de`	-0.660
`a`	-0.281
`"`	-0.280
`(!)`	-0.242